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MEMORANDA 



RELATIVE TO 



Passaic County, Ne^A^ Jersey 



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PATERSON, N. J. ; 

rHISWEI.I. i WUKTS, JOB I'KFNTEKS. 

1874. 



HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL 



MEMORANDA, 



RELATIVE TO 



Passaic County. New Jersey 



COMPILED BY \VM. NELSON, 



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PATERSON, X. J. : 

CHISWELL A WURTS, ,IOB PHINTEKS. 

1874. 



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The following memoranda were compiled from original 
sources for the use of the Board of Chosen Freeholders 
of Passaic county, New Jersey, by the Clerk of that body. 
Fifty copies were printed, thirty being annexed to the 
"Manual" of said Board, and twenty copies issued in 
this shape, for private circulation. 

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Historical and Statistical Memoranda. 



Part I.— Historieal, 



FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN VHE COUNTY. 

The first settlement in Passaic county was at Acquack- 
anonk. The country so called by the Indians embraced 
the entire Passaic Valley, and highlands adjoining, on both 
sides the Passaic river, from the Yantacaw or Third river 
northerly to the Saddle river. The name appears to be 
first found in an Indian deed, dated April 4th, 1678, from 
Capteham Peeters, an ladian Sachem, to Hartman Mac- 
hielson (Vreeland), conveying " a great Island lyeing in 
the River of Pisaick near by Aquickanucke by the Indians 
called Menehenicke" (now known as Dundee Island). 
Hartman received a patent for the island from the E. J. 
Proprietors, January 6, 1685, he bargaining to pay yearly 
"the chief or quit rent of one fatt henn." We next find 
"Haquickenock " mentioned in a deed dated July 15, 1678, 
from Sir George Carteret (one of the original two propri- 
etors of New Jersey) to Christopher Hoogland, a New 
York merchant, for two adjoining tracts of land, 278 acres 
in all, lying in what is now the city of Passaic, and which 
may be roughly described as bounded on the east by the 
Passaic river ; north by Monroe street ; west by Lexing- 
ton avenue and Prospect street ; south by River street and 
the river. The consideration was a yearly quit-rent of 
half a penny per acre, or lis., 7d. in all. This tract was 
known, from the first purchaser, as " Stotfle's (Christo- 
pher's) Point." February 16, 1679-80 (1680, New Style), 
Hoogland sold the propel ty to Hartman Macheelsie (Vree- 
land), who occupied it with his brothers Johannes and 
Cornelius. 



H HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, 

March 28, 1679, Captahem, Indian Sachem and Chief, 
" in the Pr'sence and by the aprobation and consent of 
Memiseraen, Mindawas, Ghonnajea, Indians and Sachems 
of the said country, for and In Consideration of a certain 
P'rsall of Coates, Blankets, kettles, powder, and other 
goods," conveyed the tract " known by the name of Ha- 
quequenunck" unto Hans Dederick, Gerret Garretsen, 
Walling Jacobs and Hendrick George; the tract "Be- 
ginning from the northermost bound of the towne of New- 
ark from the Lowermost pa-t thereof to the Uppermost as 
fare as the steep Rocks or Mountaines, and from thence 
to Run *all along the said Pisawick River to a White 

Oake tree standing neere the said River on the north side 
of a small brook, and from thence run up *to the 

steep rocks or Mountaines, Which said tree was marked 
by the said Captaham In the Psence of La Prairie Survey" 
or General." March 16, 1684 (1685, N. S.), the E. J. Pro- 
prietors confirmed the above deed by a patent to Hanse 
Diderick, Garret Garretson (Garrison and Van Wagoner), 
Walling Jacobs (Van Winkle), Elias Machielson (Vree- 
land), Hartman Machielson (Vreeland), Johannes Mac- 
hielson (Vreeland), Cornelius Machielson (Vreeland), Ad- 
rian Post, Urian Tomason (Van Riper), Cornelius Rowlof- 
son (Van Houten), Symon Jacobs (Van Winkle), John 
Hendrick Speare, Cornelius Lubbers (Van Blarcom) and 
Abraham Bookey, for £50 and a yearly quit rent of half a 
penny per acre, or XUyearly.t With two or, three excep- 
tions, the patentees settled here about 1686-90, and from 
time to time thereafter divided up the tract into large 
parcels, each parcel being subdivided into twenty-eight 
lots of about equal size, each patentee having two lots in 
each parcel. Thus there were the "Boght" (Paterson), 



*Here there is a blank in the deed as recorded at Tren- 
ton. 

tThe original Patent, on a great sheet of parchment, is 
in the possession of ex-Judge Henry P. Simmons, of Pas- 
saic, who has recently had it photographed. 



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the "Wesel," the "Gotham'" and the "Acquackanonk" 
divisions, and " the Hundred \cre Lots." 

The next settlement appears to have been made at Pomp- 
ton. June 6, 1695, Major Anthony Brockholls and Capt- 
Arent Schuyler, both of New York, bought 5,500 .acres of 
land "at or near Pekquaneck and Pontam* creek." The 
grantors were Taepgan, Oragnap, Mansiem, Wickwam- 
Rookham, Paakek, Siekuak, Waweigin, Onagepunk, Nes- 
kilanitt, Peykqueneck and Poutom [Indians] and laiapogh, 
Sachem of Mininssing. November 11, 1695, various deeds 
releases and assignments having been executed by the in- 
dividual Proprietors, a patent for the above land 
was granted to Brockholls and Schuyler. August 10, 1696, 
they bought 240 acres more, " on Spring Brook, called by 
the Indian name Singanck." It was probably a few years 
later before Brockholls and Schuyler actually settled at 
Pompton. The sites of their dwellings were about where 
Maj. Wm. W. Colfax and Dr. Wm. W. Colfax now live, at 
Pompton, Brockholls on the former, and Schuyler on 
the latter site. Samuel Bayard, George Ryerson, John 
Mead, Samuel Berrie, David Mandeville and Hendrick 
Mandeville were associated with Brockholls and Schuyler 
In the purchase of the above tracts. The first property 
was subsequently divided into three parcels : the Lower 
Pacquanac Patent, 2750 acres ; the Upper Pacquanac 
Patent, 1260 acres; and the Pompton Patent, 1250 acres. 

September 16, 1709, Pecca Chica, Cancheris, Mochson, 
Thetochhulun, Mondsolom, Nachpunch, Ancnock, Gwach, 
pachtan, Amegatha (and four others), Indians of North- 
ern New Jersey, convey to George Ryerson of Pechque- 
nack, Francis Ryerson of New York, and Jurya Wester- 
velt of Hackensack, yeomen, "all that certain tract of land 
in Essex county, on Passaik river, beginning by the said 
river and running along Jacob Corlion (Cortelyou's?) line, 
backwards till it comes to the Great Stone, and then run- 



*A clerical error for Pomtan, as the name was generally 
written. 



IV HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, 

ning up west northwest line till it comes to the first hill 
and then running along to the foot of the second hill till it 
comes half the hill, then running along the same second 
hill till it comes to meet a small branch or gully, and then 
running along until it comes over the Road of Pompton, 
and so along the hill until it comes to a thick gully of wa- 
ter, running where the hill turns a little west and from 
thence down to Passaic river where that little Island is, 
only excepted SchIchamack."-(//idirtn Deed in possession of 
John J. Zabriskie, Hohokus.) The writer has not seen any 
Patent from the E. J. Proprietors for the above purchase, 
but it was doubtless granted, as the Ryersons and Wester- 
velts owned most of that land until the present century. 

Some time prior to 1710, Anthony Biockholls, Helmegh 
Roelofse (Van Houten) and Roelof Helmeghse (Van Hout- 
en) appear to have bought the Totowa tract, extending 
261 chains (3>4 miles) northwest from the Passaic river. 
It was divided into Lots Nos. 1, 2 and 3, the Van Houtens 
owning No. 1, the most northwesterly, at or near Sin- 
gack. May 29, 1724, they bought of Susanna, widow and 
executrix of Brockholls, Lot No. 2, 313 acres, for £312. 
Dec. 27, 1768, the heirs of the Brockholls estate convey 
for £1800, Lot No. 3, 638 acres, to Garrcbrandt Van Hout- 
en, Marte Ryerse, Holmer Van Houten and Abraham God- 
win. 

November 27, 1711, Peter Sonmans, son of Arent Son- 
mans, one of the East Jersey Proprietors, conveys to frans 
Post, Jan Sip, Harmanus Gerritse, Thomas Jurlanse, 
Christopher Stynock (Stynniets), Cornelis Doramus, Peter 
poulosse and Hessel Pieterse, yeomen, for £660, a tract 
extending from the "Great Falls of Pesaick river" up the 
river to Peckamen river, and over to the mountains, etc., 
2,800 acres in all. 

Oct. 9, 1717, Joseph Heale, of Stains, Middlesex county, 
England, and Mercy Beuthall, of Grace Church street, Lon- 
don, widow, and Richard Ashficld, grandson and heir 
of Patience Ashfleld (Mercy Benthall and Patience Ash- 



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field being devisees of Thomas Hart, deceased, of Enfleld, 
Middlesex county, England, one of the E. J. Proprietors ; 
and Heale being executor of Patience Ashlield) convey to 
Dirrick Dey, of Bergen county, yeoman, a tract of 600 
acres adjoining Johannes De Reimers (Doremus') laud on 
Slnghack brook ; bounded easterly partly by said brook 
and partly by Capt. Joris Ryerson's line ; southerly by the 
land of Rip Van Dam (Mayor of New York) ; and wester- 
ly by said De Reimer's land, 

April 5, 1751, David Ogden, one of the Proprietors, con- 
veyed to Gerrebrant Vanhouta and Hellmigh Vanhouta 
105 acres of land, which they " took up " " at the moun- 
tain between Weg.aw and Pareknis, at the meeting of two 
small brooks called Palm brooks, and near Bare Mountain," 

The foregoing deeds indicate where the earliest settle- 
ments in the county were made. Pompton and West 
Milford townships were not much settled till about the 
middle of the last century, the London Iron Company hav- 
ing then bought most of the land north of Pompton, and 
imported German workmen, whose descendarfts principally 
occupy those two townships to this day, 

THE TOWNSHIPS. 

Acqvackanonk. — An act of 1693 provided that "the 
Township of Acquickanick, and New Barbados, shall in- 
clude all the Land on the Pissiack river above the third Riv- 
er, and from the Mouth of the said third River Northwest to 
the Partition Line of the Province, including also all the 
Land in New Barbados Neck, betwixt Hackinsack and 
Pissaick River, and thence to the Partition Line of the 
Province." An act of 1709 restricted Acquackanonk to 
the territory now embracing Passaic, Acquackanonk, 
Little Falls, and that portion of Pater.son lying south of 
the Passaic river. 

Pompton.— This township was set off from Saddle River 
and Franklin townships, Bergen county, February 8, 1797. 

Pa/cr.soii.— Incorporated as a Towu, 1792, but never or- 
ganized, and not set off from Acquackanonk township nn- 



VI HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, 

til January 2T, 1831. March 19, 1851, incorporated as a city, 
and divided into three wards. March 2, 1854, part of Man- 
chester township annexed to Paterson, as the north ward 
of said city. March 17, 1855,the fifth ward was set off from 
the south. March 24, 1868, the north ward divided into 
the first and second wards ; the east into the third and 
fourth ; the west changed to the sixth ; the south divided 
into the seventh and eighth. March IT, 1869, parts of 
Acquackanonk and Little Falls annexed to Paterson as 
the ninth ward. March 23, 1871, the ninth ward incorpor- 
ated into the fourth, seventh and eighth, and the bounda- 
ries of the fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth wards materi- 
ally altered. 

West Milford.—Set Off from Pompton township, Februa- 
ry 25, 1834. 

Maiicfiester.—Set off from Saddle River township, Ber- 
gen county, February 27, 1837. 

Jfiofj/ne.— Set off from Manchester township, February 
10, 1847. 

Little Falls.— Set off from Acquackanonk, April 2, 1868. 

Passaic— Set off from Acquackanonk as a Village, March 
21, 1871 ; incorporated as a city, and divided into first, sec- 
ond and third wards, April 7, 1873. 

REPRESENTATION IN THE COUNTY BOARD. 

Originally, each township was entitled to elect two Cho- 
sen Freeholders. When Paterson was incorporated as a 
city, with three wards, the city was still allowed but two 
members, elected at large. Feb. 18, 1853, two were allow- 
ed for each ward. Feb. 25, 1858, there then being five 
wards, they were allowed but one member for each, while 
all the townships still had two members. Feb. 20 and 
March 24, 1868, the city was again allowed two members 
for each of its eight wards, and that year the Board con- 
tained twenty-eight members. March 25. 1869, the repre- 
sentation was reduced to one member from each town- 
ship and ward, or fifteen in all, and that has been the law 



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PASSAIC COUNTY. VII 

since. At present, 18T4, there are eight members from 
Paterson, three from Passaic, and one from each of the 
six townships. Total membership, seventeen. 

REPRESENTATION IN THE LEGISLATURE. 

The territory now Included in Passaic county was 
represented as follows tn the Legislature, from 1776 to 
1837: 

In the Council— hj Theunis Dey, of Lower Preakness, 
1779-80-81 ; Wm. Colfax, of Pompton, 1808,12-13 ; Charles 
Kinsey, of Paterson, 1814 ; Martin Ryerson, of Pompton, 
1817; Charles Board, of Boardville, 1824-5-6; Nathaniel 
Board, of Boardvile, 1827-8-9-30; Jacob M. Ryerson, of 
Pompton, 1831 ; Charles Poard, 1832-3 ; Andrew Parsons, 
of Paterson, 1836. 

In the Assembly — by Henry Garritse of Acquackanonk, 
David Board, of Boardville, and Theunis Dey, of Lower 
Preakness, 1776; Jost Beam, of VVauaque, 1777-8; Henry 
Garritse, 1782-3-4-5-6-7-8 ; Theunis Dey, 1783 ; David Poard, 
Edow Merseallus, of Upper Preakness, 1784 ; David Board, 
1786 ; John Benson (probably lived in what is now Water 
street, Paterson), 178S-9 ; Abraham Speer, of Acquacka- 
nonk, and John Benson, 1793 ; Abraham Speer, 1796, 98- '9- 
1800 ; John Dey, of Lower Preakness, 1799-1800-01 ; Ralph 
Post, of Acquackanonk, 1801; Abraham Godwin, of Pat- 
erson, 1802-3; Martin J. Ryerson, of Pompton, 1803; 
Abraham Speer, 1806-7; William Colfax, 1806-7, '9-10-11 ; 
Abraham Godwin, Abraham Van Houten, both of Pater- 
son, 1807 ; Abraham Godwin, 1810, Abraham Ackerman, 
1811 ; Martin Van Houten, of Totowa (?), 1812; Charles 
Kinsey, of I aterson, 1813 ; Jacob K. Mead, of Mead's 
Basin, 1814; Charles Board. 1815; Cornelius Merselis, of 
Preakness, 1816-17; Nathaniel Board, 1818; Charles Kin- 
sey, 1819 ; Charles Board, 1820-21 ; Philemon Dickerson, of 
Paterson, 1821-2-3 ; Abraham Godwin, Jr., of Paterson, 
and Nathaniel Board, 1824 ; John Travers, of Paterson, 
1825; Brant Van Blarcom, of Paterson, 1826; Abraham 



VIII HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, 

Godwin, Jr., of Paterson, 1828; Cornelins G. Van Riper, 
of Acquackanonk, 1830 ; John P. Jackson, of Acquacka- 
uonk, and William Dickey, of Paterson, 1831-2 ; Cornelius 
G. Van Riper, and Robert Morrell, of Acquackanonk, 1833; 
Andrew Parsons, of Paterson, 1834-5 ; Jetur R. Rlggs, of 
West Milford, 1836. 

The list of members since 1837 is given in appendix to 
Proceedings of the Board for 1873-4 ; see pp. 137-42, 

ORGANIZATION OP THE COUNTY. 

In the winter of 1828-9 two or three bills were Introduc- 
ed into the Legislature for the division of Essex, Bergen 
and Morris counties ; one being for the erection of Pater- 
son county, embracing the territory now in Passaic coun- 
ty, except Pompton and West Milford, and including part 
of Morris county; the other bill being for setting off 
Pompton and West Milford and parts of Morris into a new 
county, to be called " Pompton county." Both bills failed, 
in common with a project for the erection of Atlantic 
county, in the southern part of the state. In the winter 
of 1836-7, new county projects were revived, and the 
friends of the proposed Passaic and Atlantic counties 
making common cause, both counties were created, by act 
of February 27, 1837. 

Andrew Parsons was the flrst Councillor from the new 
county ; Aaron S. Pennington, of Paterson, and Henry M. 
Brown, of West Milford, the first Assemblymen. Peri- 
grine Sandford, of Paterson, the first County Clerk ; Silas 
D. Canfield, of Paterson, the first Surrogate ; Rynier S. 
Speer, of Acquackanonk, the first Sheriff. 

The Chosen Freeholders elected in April hired a room 
in the Passaic hotel, at River and Bank streets, Paterson, 
for county purposes, and the first term of the courts was 
held there. The first annual meeting of the Board of 
Chosen Freeholders was held at Jacob Ru tan's house 
(North Main street, north side, about midway between 
Jefferson street and Ilaledon avenue, but long since 



PASSAIC COUNTY. IX 

removed), Manchester, and organized by the election 
of Cornelius I. Westervelt as Director, Andrew Mead 
as Clerk, and Geo. I. Ryerson as Collector. Messrs. 
Joseph Jackson, Cornelius I. Westervelt, Peter A. Hop- 
per and Geo. I. Ryerson are the only survivors of the first 
members and officers. May 30, 1837, the Board resolved 
to rent the basement of the Cross street M. E. Church for 
the holding of the courts, at $60 per year, and that place 
was occupied immediately for that purpose. 

THE COUNTY BUILDINGS. 

June 26, 1837, the Board decided to buy the site 
now occupied, for court house and Jail, $1,000 being 
promised by citizens as an extra inducement. Two 
of the members favored locating on Broadway, near 
Straight street. The property was conveyed by the '* So- 
ciety for Establisiug Useful Manufactures," to the county, 
by deed dated July 3, 1837, and recorded in Book A of 
Deeds, Passaic county, pp. 292-3, for the consideration 
of one dollar, and is thus described : 

"Beginning on the south side of Oliver street at its inter- 
section with the west side of Main street, and running 
thence (1) southerly along Main street 290 feet thence (2) 
westerly at right angles to Main street 214 feet to a point 
125 feet from the east side of Marshall street thence (3) 
northerly parallel with Marshall street 129 feet to a point 
140 feet 4 inches southerly from Oliver street thence (4) 
easterly parallel with Oliver street 160 feet 6 inches to a 
point 73 feet 9 inches from Main street thence (5) norther- 
ly parallel with Main street 60 feet 8 inches to a point in 
the second of the Catholic church lot which point is 80 
feet distant on a southerly course from Oliver street tht-nce 
(6) northerly along the line of said Catholic church lot 80 
feet to the south side of Oliver street thence (7) easterly 
along the south side of Oliver street S3 feet to the place 
of beginning." '^Provided, however, and this deed is 
given upon the express condition, that the parties of the 
second part shall cause a Court House and Jail to be 
erected on the said lot within live Years from the date 
hereof otherwise this deed and everything herein con- 
tained shall be void and of no effect." 

July 11, the Board adopted plans for a jail. Au- 
gust 3, contracts awarded for the mason work to 
Isaac J. Stagg and Isaac Van Blarcom, for $5,845 ; for the 



HIS TO RICA L MEMO R A NDA , 



carpenter work to Cornelius G. Garrison, for $1,645; and 
for tne iron work to Cornelius G. Post, for lie. per lb. 
August 17, plans for court house adopted. Sept. 12, con- 
tracts awarded, for the carpenter work to David Reid, for 
$3,100; and to William Kay for the mason work, for $7,- 
000. Oct. 18, a petition to lay the corner-stone (with Ma- 
sonic ceremonies) was rejected. March 16, the jail ready for 
prisoners. Feb 'i2, 1839, C. G. Garrison employed to finish 
the interior of the court house by day's work. May 8, the 
Board held its first meeting at the court house. July 16, 
the new court house was dedicated, and the courts occu- 
pied it for the tirst time. The cost of the court house and 
jail appears to have been $29,313 31, up to August 13, 1840. 
Of this, $18,450 was received as the county's share of the 
U. S. Surplus Revenue, from the sale of public lauds dur- 
ing the speculative fever which preceded the panic of j 
1837. The southern half of the present court house is ■ 
what was built in 1837-9. The entrance to the court room 
upstairs was by a huge stone stoop at the middle of the 
northern front. A square cupola, in which hung a bell, 
surmounted the centre of the roof ; the cupola appearing 
to interfere with tlie tightness of the roof, was removed 
in the fall of 1846 or the spring of 1847. The stoop was 
removed probably in 18P0, and inside stairways to the 
court room erected. The Surrogate's office was originally 
in the northwestern corner of the building, in the small | 
apartment opening off the room now occupied by the 
Board of Freeholders ; his vault has since been merged 
into that in which the deeds are kept. In 1847 the Surro- 
gate's oftlce was changed to the eastern front, the entrance 
being by the present centre door on that front. In 1871-2 
the court house was doubled in size and the old portion 
quite reconstructed, at a total cost of about $22,000. 

The old jail was a plain, homely structure, of stone, 
the front being ashlar, with Little Falls principal stone 
about the front entrance. The front part was about 
^CxlS fec^ ; the S!;i'Vifi"s omce, isxl", b-^i^^ on th-^ n'^rth 



PASSAIC COUNTY. XI 

Side, the kitchen, 18x18, on the south side, and the hall, 
12x18, in the middle. In the rear, was the prison, about 
36x45 feet, divided in the middle by an arched corridor, 
the continuation of the front hall, from which it was sep- 
arated by a stout iron door. On each side of the corridor 
were six cells, about 8x12 feet, with arched ceiling of ma- 
sonry. The second floor was similarly arranged. In the 
attic were ten or twelve rooms— for imprisoned females, 
debtors, and the better class of alleged criminals. The 
roof was of slate. The windows and front door were 
plain and square. The whole building was exceedingly 
uncomfortable and unhealthy, and in a few years was too 
small. It occupied about the same site as the present 
prison, which, in fact, is in part erected on the founda- 
tions of the old jail. May 11, 1853, the committee on 
public buildings (J. P. Huntoon, Edward Sweeney and 
Peter J. Terhune) were instructed to inquire into the ne- 
cessity and propriety of building a public workhouse. Au- 
gust 16, the committee reported favorably, and were au- 
thorized to solicit plans. November 9, plans were re- 
ceived and it was resolved to build a workhouse. Decem- 
ber 7, five plans were presented, and that of Mr. Nash, of 
Bridgeport, Conn., was adopted, with some modifications, 
the cost not to exceed $20,000. May 1, 1854, contracts 
were awarded: for the iron work, to Ilolden & Drew; 
carpenter work, to Cornelius Q. Garrison; grading and 
leveling, to Garside & Beaumont ; the mason work was 
ordered to be done by day's work. Nov. 16, the Collector 
reported $23,097 expended on account of public buildings. 
On that day the Board attended the funeral of Henry 
Lawback, a young man who fell off the roof timbers at the 
jail and was killed. March 27, 1855, rules for the govern- 
ment of the work house were adopted, showing that the 
building must have been nearly ready. May 13, 1856, it 
was reported that $U,980 had been expended on the jail 
and workhouse during the preceding year. Thus the total 
cost was $35,077. One of the principal objects in view in 



Xn HISTORICAL MEMORANDA, 

the erection of the present jail was to set the prisoners to 
work, and they were actually employed for a time at bas- 
ket making, and a deputy-keeper was appointed over them, 
at $400 a year. The experiment proved a failure, financially, 
as the men destroyed a great deal of material, and May 
14, 1856, it was resolved, 13 to 7, to discontinue work. 

There has been but one execution at the jail. April 30' 
1850, John Jonstan, an Englishman, was executed in the 
yard in the rear of the old jail, by Sheriff Nathaniel Lane, 
pursuant to conviction and sentence, for the murder of 
Mr. and Mrs. John S. Van Winkle, at tlie Qoffle, on the 
night of January 9, 1S50. 

CUSTODY AND BOARD OP PRISONERS. 

The Sheriff originally had the custody of the jail and Its 
inmates, generally living in the jail, and boarding the 
prisoners. March 6, 1833, the sheriff was allowed twenty- 
five cents per day for feeding prisoners ; November 23, 
1340, twenty-two cents per day ; May 10, 1843, twenty cents 
per day ; May 11, 1858, twenty-five cents per day ; May 10, 
1854, the same ; March 27, 1S55, $2 per week, besides lights 
and fuel ; May 13, 1857, $2.25 per week. An act having been 
passed in 1857 authorizing the Board of Chosen Free- 
holders to assume the custody of the jail and appoint a 
k3eper or warden, the Board voted, Oct. 9, 1857, to do so, 
and that action was confirmed Nov. 11, when the salary 
was fixed at $250, and Samuel Demarest, Freeholder from 
the East Ward, was appointed warden for five years ; he 
was re-appolnted November 12, 1862. In September, 1863, 
three prisoners escaped from jail, one of them being an 
accomplished iturglar, who attempted to rob Mr. F. C. 
Beckwith's house, but was captured in the attempt. Dem- 
arest was suspected of conniving at his escape from pris- 
on, and after a long and searching investigation, he was 
compellefl to resign, May 10, 1864, to take effect the next 
day, on which day Nathaniel James Green was appointed. 
May 11, 1869, Harmon B. Goodridge was appointed, and 



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XliI 



was succeeded, May 12, 1874, by John F. Buckley. The 
salary was raised from time to time until May 8, 1872, when 
it was fixed at $600. The board of prisoners for the follow- 
ing-named years has cost per week : 

Warden. 

1867-8 Green 

1868-9 " 

1869-70 Goodridge 



1870-1. 
1871-2. 
1872-3. 
1873-4. 



Including 


Xot Includ- 


Salaries. 


ing Salaries. 


$1.84 


$1.52. 


2.12%.... 


1.84% 


2.07 


1.83 


1.67 .... 


1.4T 


1,98 


1.69 


2.13 .... 


1.77 


2.24 .... 


1.93 



INSTITUTIONS BEGUN, BUT ABANDONED. 

May 8, 1850, a committee (P. Sandford, John A. Mac- 
pherson and Rynier S. Speer) was appointed to inquire in- 
to the expediency of purchasing a farm and creeting a 
county poor house. (The poor had always been taken care 
of by the respective townships.) November 13, the com- 
mittee unanimously recommended that a county poor- 
house and farm be provided without unnecessary delay. 
Agreed to, and a committee of one from each township 
appointed to select sites, who reported January 8, 1851, 
recommending the purchase of a farm of two hundred 
acres, situated on the road that leads from the old Pater- 
son and Hamburgh turnpike to Pompton Plains, about 
two miles northwest of Barney R. Sisco's, in Wayne town- 
ship ; the property of Isaac Schuyler, the price being $8,- 
000. The Board at once executed a contract with Mr. 
Schuyler, to consummate the transfer, under a penalty of 
$1,000 for forfeiture. The project excited a great deal of 
opposition throughout the county, and on February 27, a 
public meeting held at Preakness remonstrated against It, 
but March 3d the Board resolved to adhere to its action, 
partly on account of the forfeiture provided for ; the deed 
was executed, a committee appointed to take possession 



XI V HISTORIC A L MEMORA NDA , 

of the premises, and proposals soliciterl for erecting an ad- 
dition to the house on the farm. March 17, Conrad Beam 
appointed Keeper, for a year, at a salary of $400, besides 
board and lodging for himself and family ; a series of 
rules adopted for the government of the poorhouse, and 
Freeholders Eynier S. Speer, William W. Colfax and Ed- 
ward D'Camp appointed Trustees until the annual meet- 
ing of the Board. March 31, the Board received proposals 
for constructing the addition to the poorhouse, but re- 
solved to do it by day's work. May 14, the " new Board" 
resolved to advertise the poorhouse farm for sale, at the 
price paid. Aug. 11, it was resolved to accept $7,500 for 
the property ; March 15, 1852, it was agreed to accept $6,- 
000. After several vain efforts, the farm being meanwhile 
worked on shares, the property was sold, in November, 
1853, to Samuel Smith (a quarryman at Haledon, since de- 
ceased), for $6,000. 

July 2, 1872, the Board was notified to remove ten pa- 
tients from the State Lunatic asylum, being the surplus 
over the county's quota, and the asylum being largely 
over crowded. September 3, the committee on lunacy re- 
ported that the city of Paterson offered a plot of five 
acres, whereon to erect a county lunatic asylum, but the 
committee recommended no action at present. October 3, 
the committee reported having made extensive inquiries, 
and finally concluded to recommend the erection of a 
county lunatic asylum. The Board authorized the com- 
mittee to award contracts for the erection of such an 
asylum, to cost not more than $20,000. November 20, the 
committee reported contracts awarded for the excavation, 
for supplying the brick, and for building the first story, of 
stone. Some doubts having been expressed as to the 
power of the Board to erect a county asylum (although 
other counties had done the same thing), a bill was intro- 
duced in the Legislature at its next session, authorizing 
the erection and maintenance of a Passaic county lunatic 
asylum. March 4, 1873, the committee on lunacy reported 



PASSAIC COUNTY. 



XV 



having "abandoned work on the new county asylum, and 
withdrawn from the Legislature the bill legalizing such 
institution, there appearing to be opposition to the pro- 
ject at home and in the Legislature, where general rather 
than special legislation was favored for the relief of the 
surplus indigent insane of the several counties." The 
committee were authorized to fill up the excavation made 
and dispose of the material on hand. August 5, the com- 
mittee were directed to confer with the city authorities of 
Patersou, to see if arrangements could not be effected 
for the accommodation of incurable lunatics at the I'ater- 
son almshouse. October 7, the committee reported such 
arrangements effected. November 19, it was resolved to 
pay $4C0 a year to the Superintendent of the almshouse, 
for caring for the lunatics there chargeable to the county. 



Part II.- -Statistical. 

CENSUSES OF THE COUNTY. 

1840 1850 1855 1860 1865 
Paterson : 

1st W ard f 

■{ 2414 295T 3596 

2d " i 

Bd " ( 

^a695 4411 4821 

4th " ( 

.5th " -^340 318:J 3724 

6th " 3118 38S5 4911 

7th " ( 

^4291 5152 7841 

8th " ( 

9th " (with Acquackanouk and Little Falls) 

Total < ity 7598 ll341 16458 19585 24893 

Acquackanouk) 2473 2941 3067 3235 4490 

Little Falls ) 

Manchester 3105 2787 590 842 *1029 

Pompton 1437 17-0 1434 1591 1472 

Wavue 1164 1040 1355 1440 

West Milford 2108 2624 2035 2402 2561 

Total County, 16721 22577 24624 29013 36779 

•Estimated, as there was no census reported of 

chest,^:'. 



1870. 

2904 

3174 
4467 

3574 
720.i 
40ii0 
3093 

4(4-> 
968 

33518. 
4370 

1287 
1166 
lS4(t 
1518 
2650 



46349. 
Man- 



XVI HISTORICAL MEMORAXDA, 

It shouUt be remembered that a portiou of Manchester 
was annexed to Paterson between 1S60 and 1S55. Passaic 
was included in Acquackanonk in 1S70 and prior thereto. 
The following statistics of the population of Paterson are 
gleaned from various sources: census in ISIO, 292; in 
1S20. isrs ; in 1S24, -iTST ; in 1S25, 50S4 ; in 1S2T, 6236 ; in 
1S29, 7033 ; in 1S30. 7731 ; in 1832, 90S5. The decrease of 
2,000. from 1S32 to 1S40, is attributable to the ''sliding scale 
tariflf." The population of the village of Manchester, or 
North Paterson (also includeil in population of Paterson, 
as above\ was in 1S24, 2S9: in 1S27, 625; in 1S29, S52 ; in 
1S32, 1214. In lSoo-4. Messrs. John J. Brown and Andrew 
Derrom took a special census of Paterson, of population, 
dwellmgs, manufactures, etc., and reported the number 
of inhabitants: in the south ward, 7S94 ; westward, 4223; 
east ward, 3594 ; north ward, 2514. Total, 17615, or 1157 
more than were reported by the ward assessors who took 
the State census in 1S55. 

The rate of increase in the county's popu-ation has been : 
from 1S40 to 1S50, 35 per cent. ; from 1S50 to 1S55, 10 per cent.: 
from 1S55 to 1S60, 20 per cent, ; from 1S60 to 1S65, 33 per 
cent. : from 1S455 to 1S70. 26 per c^n*^. 



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PASSAIC COUXTY. 



XVII 



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VOTE OF THE COUNTY. 
Whig 

or Eep. Dem. 

Pouucll 1166 922. . 

Congress 1214 955. . 

Council 1002 905.. 

President 1362 962 . . 

Council 846 899.. 

" 1195 1071.. 

Congress 949 1065.. 

President 1602 1291 

Coroners 1179 1237. . 

Congress 1608 1090 . . 

Governor 1404 1333. . 

President 1749 1304. . 

....1436.. 

....1604.. 

....1390.. 

....1825.. 

....1478.. 

....1358.. 

.. .13t»3.. 

....1618., 



Total. 



..51 



.2088 
.2169 
.1907 
.2324 
.1796 

2266 

2014 

....2893 

2416 

2698 

.73t...2810 
.120tt.3173 

2.560 

2990 

2455 

3495 

2822 

3214 

.3260 

.954t..3994 

County Clerk ("Scrub Race") 3651 

Congress 2112. 

Governor 2460. 

President 2814. 

Senator 24S4. 

Governor 1927. 

Sheriff 2260. 



Senator 1124.. 

Coroners 1386.. 

Sheriff 1065., 

President 1670.. 

Governor 1344.. 

Congress 18.56., 

Senator •*1867., 

President 1422. 



1881. 
1870. 
2484. 
1895. 
240S. 
24.59. 



3993 
4330 
5293 
4379 
4335 
4719 

President 2934 2773 5707 

Governor 3365 2666 6031 

Congress 341 9 2862 6281 

Senator 2767 3215 5982 

President 4058 3406 T464 

Sheriflf 2S86 3145 6031 

r-ongress 43T1 3S15 8186 

Governor 4141 3322 7463 

President 5148 3484 8632 

Senator 3751 3778 . . . .99t . . . 7743 

Governor 4051 4047 8121 



•Temperance, find. ttFree Soil. **Fusion, or antl- 
Lecorapton. t"American." 

The ratio of population to voters has been : in 1840, 
7.2; in 1850, 6.45; in 18.5.5, 6.15 ; in 1860, 5.47; In 1865, 6.1 ; 
In 1870, 5.45. This calculation is based on the heaviest 
vote polled nearest a census year. 



XVITI 



ST A TISTICA L MEMORA NBA , 



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COUNTY JAIL STATISTICS. 

The following table shows the whole number of prison- 
ers confined in the county jail for the years named, ending 
May 1st ; the number of each sex, the number of natives 
and foreigners ; and of the former, the number of natives 
of New Jersey, and of the foreigners, the number of nat- 
ives of Ireland : 



1857— 
1858— 
1862- 
IBiiS- 
1864— 
1868- 
1869— 
1H70— 
1871— 
1872— 
1873— 
1874— 



M. 

454 
422 
191 
170 
169 
345 
361 
498 
685 
662 
752 
718 



Total. Native. For. N, J. Ire. 



114 

92 

54 

58 

61 

69 

91 

109 

131 

132 

144 

144 



568 
514 
245 
228 
230 
414 
452 
607 
816 
794 
896 
862 



204 364 



138 202 



93 
103 
108 
172 
183 
257 
32-^ 
332 
398 
409 



152 
125 
122 
242 
269 
3f)0 
491 
462 
496 
453 



71 

81 
87 

12•^ 

137 
151 
190 
232 
281 
276 



112 
95 
84 
146 
154 
209 
307 
273 
289 
260 



During the war, large numbers of 
ly persons left the county, to enlist 



vagrant and disorder- 
in or to follow the 



army. Hence, the great falling off in the numbers of 
prisoners, 1860-65. 



COUNTY TAXES AND TAX RATE. 



Years. Valuation. 

1837 

1838-44 

1845 

1846 $2,084,000 

1847-50 

1851-3 

1854 

1855 8,878,000 

1856-9 

1860-1 

1862 12,1S9,000 

1863 12,365>,O00 

1864 n,vn,{) 

1865 12.S7t',(0«l 

1866 1«,377,000 

1867 18,918,000 

1868 25,S26,000 

1869 25,4H0.000 

1S70 26,215,000 

1871 28,056,000 

1872 30,668,727 

18-^3 34.625,812 

1874 33,D-'.',059 



County Tax. Rate pr. ct 

$5,000 
7(00 
4,500 

7,000 .0033 
7,000 

l4,ono 

20,000 

45,000 .005 
25,000 
27,000 

27,000 .0022 

3 ',000 .0024 

30,000 .0023 

27,000 .0021 

27,000 .0016 

40,000 .0021 

100,0<>0 .004^^ 

120,000 .0047 

120,000 .0040 

150,000 .0053 

150,000 .0049 

1.50,000 ,0043 

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BONDED DEBT OF THE COUNTY. 

The bonded debt of the county consists of four classes 
of bonds : 1st, bounty bonds, authorized by act of March 
16, 1864 ; $54,000 issued ; several instalments paid off since 
1867. 2d, bridge bonds, authorized by act of April 3, 1867; 
$40,000 issued, payable 1871-6. 3d, bridge bonds, author- 
ized by act of March 1, 1870 ; $100,000 issued, payable 1878- 
87. 4th, funding bonds, authorized by act of March 12, 
1873; $75,000 issued ; payable 1878-87. The following ta- 
ble shows the amount of each class of bonds falling due 
each year : 

1st. 2d. 3d. 

1874 $3,000 $7,000 

1875 3,000 7,000 

1876 3,000 5,000 

1877 3,000 

1878 3,000 $10,000 

1879 4,000 10,000 

1880 4,000 10,000 

1881 4,000 10,000 

1882 4,000 10,000 

1883 4,000 10,000 

1884 4,000 10,000 

1885 10,000 

1886 10,000 

1887 10,000 



4th. 


Total. 




$10,000 




10,000 




8,000 




3,000 


$7,500 


20,500 


7,500 


21,500 


7,500 


21,500 


7,500 


21,500 


7,500 


21,500 


7,500 


21,500 


7,500 


21,500 


7,500 


17,500 


7,500 


17,500 


7,500 


17,500 



Total $39,000 $19,000 $100,000 $75,000 $233,000 



PASSAIC COUNTY. XXIII 



APPORTIONMENT OP STATE AND COUNTY TAXRS. 

The following table shows the apportionment of State 
tax, State school tax, county tax and bounty tax (for 
payment of interest and principal on county bounty 
bonds) for 1874. Fractions of a dollar are omitted, but 
are reckoned in the totals : 

State 
State. School. County. Bounty. Total. 

Paterson $36,473 $48,631 $133,613 $ 18*5 $218,904 

Passaic 6,271 8,3t51 2ii,826 1,114 45,572 

Acquackanonk.. 2,201 3,601 14,250 596 21,147 

Little Falls 988 1,317 3,885 394 6,583 

Manchester 1,053 1,403 4,309 219 6,934 

Wayne 1,183 1,578 4,482 690 7,934 

Pompton 1,200 1,600 6,069 721 9,591 

WestMilford.... 913 1,218 3,566 1,600 7,496 

$50,782 $67,709 $200,000 $5,520 $324,012 
The proceeds of the State school tax are appropriated 
to the several counties in proportion to the number of 
children between the ages of five and eighteen years. The 
appropriation of State school moneys to Passaic county 
for 1S74 was $75,006.63, or about $7,300 more than the coun- 
ty was required to pay to the State. 



XXIV STATISTICAL MEMORANDA. 


STATE, 


COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL TAXES. 




The following 


is a summary of municipal taxes in Pas- 


sale county, in 


addition to 


the State and county taxes j 


cited above : 


State and 










State 


District 








School. 


School. 


Local. 


Total. 


Paterson 


..$218,904 


$42,000 


$440,096 


$700,0.)0 


Passaic 


.. 45,5T2 


10,500 


45,000 


101,000 


Acquackanonk. 


.. 21,147 


1,409 


2,200 


24,756 


Little Falls 


. . 6,583 


505 


2,700 


9,788 


Manchester... 


.. 6,984 


1,555 


3,600 


12,139 


Wayne 


. . 7,934 


1,750 


2,000 


11,684 ! 


Pompton 


. . 9,591 


1,950 


2,500 


14,041 


WestMllford... 


. . 7,'29d 

$324,012 


302 


3,000 
$501,096 


10,598 

$895,079 


$(59,971 


The "local" taxes of the 


townshi 


ps are for roads and 


poor, and in several of the 


townships include 


a special 


tax for local bounty and road bonds. 


The tax for county 


bounty bonds is 


not included in this 


table. The total tax- 


ation in the cou 


nty is about $930,00i' 


, or nearly 


three per 


cent, of the valuation. 









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